ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,184, issued on June 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Efficient scheduling of terminal devices" was invented by Fredrik Athley (Kullavik, Sweden), Andreas Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Sven Petersson (Savedalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for scheduling communication with terminal devices. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises receiving, in response to having performed a beam management procedure involving transmission of reference signals in a set of beams, a beam report from each of the terminal devices. Each beam report indica...